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America’s New President

Donald Trump is the new president of the United States and his first couple of weeks of office is turning into a disaster. On January 20, 2017 Trump was let into office and 10 days later he banned seven countries of different immigrants. He is saying that he is doing this to protect our borders and national security. When he was running for president, national security and strengthening America’s borders was one of his pillars he ran on. Now he is not allowing immigrants from Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Syria from entering the United States. If individuals from one of these seven countries that President Trump banned are caught traveling in the United States, they will risk being deported. According to an article from CNN (2017), titled “How the Trump administration chose the 7 countries in the immigration executive order,” President Donald Trump was attempting to properly screen immigrants from the previously mentioned countries, before they travel to the United States. Also, the executive order that President Trump issued banned both green card holders and citizens from traveling to the United States. In President Obama’s executive order he a had similar ban but he did not restrict green card holders. This is hurting the United States relations with the Muslim community with in those seven countries, and that is something that United States do not need to protect its national security. Trump hasn’t even been in office for a month and he is already starting to make outrageous and selfish decision. There are US citizens that have family members from those seven countries who are trying to travel back to United States but are not able to because of President Trump’s executive order. The fact that Donald Trump doesn’t even realize how he is only thinking for one, that’s himself. Donald Trump I would say is arrogant and thinks he knows everything but is actually hurting his own citizens. Leaving people in another country for ninety days is certainly not safe, especially if Trump plans to ban those countries from entering the United States. Anything could possibly happen to our US citizens and he is not doing anything to make sure they are safe. The bad part about this is that our people voted for Trump to become president and now they are protesting in angry mobs. Within President Trump’s term that he is planning to serve for four years, the citizens of the United States will learn from a great lesson. Donald Trump is not only affecting our citizens but he is also affecting our government. This executive order that President Trump has created is putting our troops in much greater danger, because it will cause confusion across the country. Troops could be attacked and killed by village members of other countries if the message is not clearly understood. Donald Trump is certainly making the Democrats mad with his choices but he is also putting his own group, the Republicans into awkward positions. His actions are starting to lead to him losing a relationship with both political groups, revealing that there was not much thought putting into Trumps decision. Now there are dozens of senators who are complaining that, the executive order is not going to be good for our country. Congress is saying that the White House should’ve informed them before letting things take place. The lack of communication and thought process is put President Trump into a bind. His actions are showing how he can be arrogant and excluded different branches from knowing his plans before giving them out. This is not a healthy government that we are allowing Trump to form. He is only pushing us years back with the countries that we already have relationship with. Gaining a relationship with these countries was tough and if the order goes through completely, us being able to help the seven countries will end. There has to be a stop to President Trump’s executive order to make sure our country doesn’t create bad image to other countries. Trump is going to be the reason a war starts and possible could be in our US soil. As a US citizen, we the people have to make a stand and let our voices be heard!

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I really enjoyed reading your blog. You had very strong points for your argument about trump’s new order. I wrote something similar to your post about trump banning seven countries. I agree with your statements about his order. The only thing he’s creating with this order is war and it’s possible that the war could take place in the United States, making us, the people of the United States in great danger. Instead of cooperating and becoming allies with countries we have hurt in the past years, he’s creating enemies. We the people need to stand up for our country and beliefs because I know for a fact that we are better than just letting a President destroy America and it’s repetition. America is the land of the free and is known for welcoming immigrants. We can’t let hate win! God bless America.

Great post and insight on the situation at hand. I agree with you, this is an unfortunate position that the United States of America is in, but this is the type of government that we live in. As you stated previously, people who supported President Trump are beginning to have second thoughts, about their decision, however those second thoughts will not do anything for our country now. There is no excuse for letting someone without any political experience govern a country, especially a candidate with such a track record of thoughtless distasteful remarks and actions throughout his career. Although President Trump has been very proactive since his inauguration, I feel as though he should take more time to consider the overall impact on America before he makes decisions. President Trump is an excellent business man, but America is a people’s business, which requires more thought and calculated decisions. I wish President Trump much success in his near future, because America’s success relies on him.

I appreciate how there are majority of people that disagree with his decision. As I am sure, there will be many people to disagree with mine. Yes, it may see un-American to do such a thing and keep people out and it may seen like Hitlerism among mass proportions. Not that I thought Hitler’s way was right either, however I do tend to wonder if this may be the beginning to the change that our country may need. We are so AFRAID of change. We as a country are so set in our ways that ANY change we buck. No one necessarily sees the potential positive effects they may have, however they focus on just the negative. These people however may be the quickest to complain about not “getting someone that speaks English” on the phone. Take a look at all the tags on the clothing that you wear. I bet it would be hard to find something that specifically says “MADE IN AMERICA”. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing due to cheap labor and making more money in corporate pockets however, how many jobs would that make on our home turf for the unfortunate unemployed or our vets who cant find a job? As I expressed before – I didn’t necessarily want to vote for either candidate and I was going to throw it to the third party but…thinking about it more and more…maybe we need a slap in the face change. When was the last time we really had that?

I agree with you that this executive order is making it harder on America than helping. We are destroying our relations with these seven countries,but i think america needs change. We will not grow without change. I mean America is so set in its ways we do not want to change, and this mind set will doom us in the end. America is the only country not on the metric system. This seems like a not a big problem but the world will move on without us and where will America be? Left behind that is where. Yes Trump has so extreme ways of changing America but if there is a problem we need to at least try to solve it anyway we know how.

I see the points being made, and agree to an extent. However, I believe Trump has the authority to do this as POTUS. As President, he has sworn to enact the laws of the land. One of which being current immigration policy. I would also point out that during a time of war, we cannot always accept the risks involved.

I agree that this has only caused foreign relations to be damaged. That always puts soldiers in harms way. However, I also believe that some form of clearing them for entry should be upheld. There is no one size fits all to this problem. Although, our government seems to always apply that formula. 🙂